4 ways to keep your data safe from hackers and cybercriminals
While it may seem overwhelming to keep your personal information safe, it doesn’t have to be difficult as long as you take small steps.

While it may seem overwhelming to keep your personal information safe, it doesn’t have to be difficult as long as you take small steps.
Even with the vulnerability patched, user information such as home address and some “skills” or apps they have linked could have been exposed.
I can even remember a time when gas pumps measured your fuel and costs via a mechanical counter and not a digital counter.
According to Microsoft, the hack occurred between January 1st and March 28th of this year.
Microsoft has sent out an email to a “limited subset” of users using services like @msn.com, @hotmail.com, and @outlook.com who have been affected.
Researchers from Amnesty International published a report that highlights recent phishing operation that is hacking accounts in the Middle East and Africa.
The Milwaukee woman claims her password was compromised of an entire sentence which no one else knew.
Reddit has informed law enforcement of the security incident and is informing any users affected by the breach.
In order to keep your accounts secure, be sure that your password is at least 14 characters.
Basically, it’s the same game only now the chip reader is the target.
The ads in question have been served by Google itself, via it’s popular DoubleClick ad network.
The researchers reached a 99.5% accuracy rate when hacking phones that had one of the 50 most common PIN codes.
The hack was bad enough, paying the hackers $100,000USD to keep quiet is just adding fuel to the fire.
Equifax’s security measures are most certainly in need of some serious scrutiny.
Security research firm Kaspersky Lab discovered the campaign that uses Facebook Messenger to deliver a video link that redirects the user to a fake website that contains another link to malicious software.
Be careful out there in social media land, not everything is as it seems!
According to the New York Times, the Pentagon is worried that hackers are ramping up their social media presence in order to break into DoD computers.
In the Morton, Illinois, case, the target did indeed send the information requested, which included district employees social security numbers.
Ordinarily, if you clicked those ad links, you would be directed to the company who placed the ad (YouTube, Best Buy, Verizon etc.).
Two hackers, with criminal pasts, are offering up a large botnet of 400,000 Internet of Things (IoT) infected devices for rent.
There are new warnings out today concerning opening files received through social media, namely Facebook and LinkedIn.
“Google’s decision to disclose these vulnerabilities before patches are broadly available and tested is disappointing, and puts customers at increased risk.”
Miliefsky says the federal government could and should take several steps if it’s truly concerned.
Our federal and local governments need to step it up and keep one stride ahead of these bad guys if they want to prevent or minimize the damage hackers of any kind can cause.
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